Episode 8: The Poem Hidden Within Reality - with special guest Xenia Viray

Welcome to Crystal Ballers, a podcast celebrating the audacity to create our future now, with your hosts Britten LaRue and Natasha Levinger.

This week, Natasha & Britten are excited to welcome special guest, Xenia Viray.  Xenia Marie Ross Viray (she/they) is an imagination healer, frequency artist, and creativity catalyst. She is the eldest of three sisters, and her name means kindness to strangers. Born as a brick-and-mortar fashion business, Myths of Creation is a container for experiments, art, writing, and gatherings at the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and meaning-making. Xenia guides spirited innovators who want to bring their natural genius into form. 

In this episode:

• Attuning yourself to find the poem within reality
• Allowing familiar physical tasks to quiet your mind enough to connect to that poem
• Xenia's eternal inner child is making peace with being a grown being in a human body
• A body-based approach to timeline creation
• The relationship between The Conscious Creator and The Allowing Mystic in each of us
• Xenia's relationship to writing
• Being at the first Webbie Awards
• Designing her own writing degree at NYU
• Powerful affirmations for these (and other) chaotic times
• You can tune your antenna to what you want and wait for the frequency to come in
• If you cannot believe something, it's hard to find it in reality
• There are many realities present, and you do not have to escape reality to experience them now
• Your desires are your map to new realities
• How obsession and avoidance can be used to tune into new realities
• How shame can keep you from doing the work to tune into new timelines
• Why it can feel like abandoning people when you thrive
• Where magic and quantum physics meet
• Tuning yourself to a frequency of suffering is not the most efficient way to create intimacy with someone else
• Worrying about the optics of self-care rather than the reality of it
• Learning to see when your own perception is clouded or unclouded
• The practicality of being an optimistic dreamer
• Pondering the difference between escaping and dreaming
• Questioning our own delineations of the "real" world and the "dream" world
• Daydreaming as a crucial self-care tool
• Labeling things as "daydreaming" unnecessarily centers this reality as the "main" reality
• Where we place our consciousness dictates our reality
• Learn about The Observer Effect on the Double Slit Experiment
• Our attention is the alchemical mechanism for putting our consciousness onto a timeline
• We are creating our reality every...single...second
• Inner child work can help put you and your inner child parts on the same timeline
• The relationship of The Algorithm to the Observer Effect
• Obstacles to using the Observer Effect to change reality on a societal level
• A mystical model for reality can allow you to access facets of yourself for different moments
• The trap of relationships oriented toward struggle (even shared struggle)
• How a need or validation can get you stuck in single perspectives
• Using self-compassion to help scared parts of yourself move into safety
• We need trust to evolve as a society
• Some seeds need certain stressors to ever start growing
• Accepting the moment we're in as an invitation to crack open new ways of being, thinking, feeling
• Community is so important for resilience
• The Allegory of The Butterfly & The Imaginal Discs
• What repulses you can be a signal for self-examination
• If you're building